Reno’s Bruka Theatre will present a minimalist version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with 10 performances this month featuring just three actors playing all the parts. “It’s a story of redemption and of the […]
In the Great Basin, the craft – and art – of weaving baskets and other useful items from reeds and other plant fibers goes back more than 10,000 years to the end of the last […]
It takes more than a worldwide pandemic to stop the 38th Annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The in-person festival at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, which usually takes place in January, is cancelled for […]
Behind the neon glitz of the Silver State is a universe of art and artists that is always evolving and reinventing itself. Kris Vagner, a Reno journalist and veteran arts writer, knows those galaxies. She […]
Imagine climbing into a golf cart, but rather than playing the course, you have an exclusive seat to view music, theater and dance performances on lush green “stages.” On Oct. 16, 108 people, seated two to […]
Our sincere thanks go out to everyone involved in the RN&R’s Art Talks benefit Sept. 23. Your efforts and donations will help keep local journalism alive in Northern Nevada and Lake Tahoe. The fundraiser took […]
A signed lithograph by former President Jimmy Carter and artworks inspired by the beauty of the Silver State and California are among the more than two dozen fine art pieces offered in the Art Talks’ […]
Anyone who says they fully understand exactly what “Waiting for Godot” is about might have taken too many drugs in the 1960s. Samuel Becket’s two-act play, which opened on Broadway in 1956 and has been […]
On Sept. 23 in Reno, art celebrates craft. That’s when 15 leading local artists are coming together to support the craft of independent local journalism. The artists are the marquee attraction at the Reno News […]
Eighty years ago, when Las Vegas was just a wide spot on a dusty road, Reno was the state’s gambling Mecca, an oasis of gaming, glitz and neon at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. […]
Two years after Thomas Edison invented motion pictures, Nevada produced the nation’s first blockbuster movie. The film of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prizefight, produced in Carson City in 1897, which also is considered the first movie documentary, […]
Days after seeing “Joe Bell,” I am still pondering this amazing film. It’s a movie with such intense, thoughtful acting, such compelling yet tragic characters and such a thought-provoking story that I just cannot shake […]
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